I couldn't decide whether this should go under new, or software, or the distro forums... but I finally decided on these.

I'm trying to create a live CD for Linux Mint Xfce edition, and I'm totally new to the idea of installing Linux. I've used Mandriva and Xubuntu before, though. Anyways, I'm using a Nero software package that came with my Acer Aspire One netbook to burn the discs, and my question, after all that, is what exactly needs to be on the CD? Like, in the ISO file? I got the one from their website.

IndyGunFreak

01-15-2009 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by alkanetexe
(Post 3409619)

I couldn't decide whether this should go under new, or software, or the distro forums... but I finally decided on these.

I'm trying to create a live CD for Linux Mint Xfce edition, and I'm totally new to the idea of installing Linux. I've used Mandriva and Xubuntu before, though. Anyways, I'm using a Nero software package that came with my Acer Aspire One netbook to burn the discs, and my question, after all that, is what exactly needs to be on the CD? Like, in the ISO file? I got the one from their website.

It may not directly correlate to the software you're using, but it will give you the idea, and if it doesn't, it offers some free software that can be downloaded and used to burn the image.

I shall check that out when I get home, but I was mainly asking about the iso. I made a disk, but both of the computers I tried completely ignored the disc, even after I changed the boot priority...

IndyGunFreak

01-15-2009 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by alkanetexe
(Post 3410029)

I shall check that out when I get home, but I was mainly asking about the iso. I made a disk, but both of the computers I tried completely ignored the disc, even after I changed the boot priority...

Then there's a pretty good chance, you didn't make the disk properly. It has to be burned to the disk as an image. I don't know what version of Nero you have, but you can google that version and "burning ISO" or something to that effect, and likely find the instructions. ISO images have to be burned a bit different than just normal data.

IGF

alkanetexe

01-15-2009 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by IndyGunFreak
(Post 3410113)

ISO images have to be burned a bit different than just normal data.

Graah! I wish I would've known that earlier ;-; That information definitely helps.

I will look up instructions for burning ISOs and see if that helps.

Thanks a lot!

EDIT!For future reference, I have Nero 7 and was using Nero Express Essentials.

EDIT2! A friend of mine pointed me to InfraRecorder, which has an explicitly stated ISO Image writing mode. I tried that and it still didn't work, so now I'm downloading the image from another source to see if THAT works... groan...

EDIT3! Okay, so the same friend who pointed me to InfraRecorder convinced me to try the Gnome version, and go figure, it works. But it works on my desktop PC. My laptop is too small for its own good, and thus I have to use a USB CD/DVD-EVERYTHING drive. But for whatever reason, it doesn't seem to be working...

IndyGunFreak

01-16-2009 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by alkanetexe
(Post 3410130)

Graah! I wish I would've known that earlier ;-; That information definitely helps.

I will look up instructions for burning ISOs and see if that helps.

Thanks a lot!

EDIT!For future reference, I have Nero 7 and was using Nero Express Essentials.

EDIT2! A friend of mine pointed me to InfraRecorder, which has an explicitly stated ISO Image writing mode. I tried that and it still didn't work, so now I'm downloading the image from another source to see if THAT works... groan...

EDIT3! Okay, so the same friend who pointed me to InfraRecorder convinced me to try the Gnome version, and go figure, it works. But it works on my desktop PC. My laptop is too small for its own good, and thus I have to use a USB CD/DVD-EVERYTHING drive. But for whatever reason, it doesn't seem to be working...

Did your Xfce Mint disk boot on the Main PC? If it does, then this indicates a problem w/ the laptop. Does it boot a USB device? I'm assuming it does, since you mentioned a USB CD/DVD drive. If your laptop is not capable of booting a USB device, that could be part of the problem.

Download the ISO of your choice, then use unetbootin to setup a thumb drive to boot. (Mint, it will probablyneed to be at least 1gig)... Unetbootin is pretty easy to use for setting up bootable USB devices. Could also be, you just downloaded a bad ISO.. Maybe try downloading from another source.